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Formulation: Articulation, Folio II, Folder 11, 12

Color screen print on paper
15 x 40 inches
1972

[Two] very versatile versions of a glass picture of 1929, Bowers (Lauben), originally in yellow and black on a white ground. In these evolutions there are only three grays and the white of the paper, but these interact in an alive and generous way to produce new groupings, colors, and actions.

Art in its very nature is new in formulation,

articulation, though constant in its task to reveal

and to arouse emotion. All real art is or was

modern in its time, daring and new,

demonstrating a constant change in seeing and

feeling. If revival had been a perpetual

virtue, we still would live in caves and

earth pits. In art, tradition is to

create, not to revive.

(From “Present and/or Past,” printed in Design, 1946.)

Statement of content reproduced from Josef Albers’s Formulation: Articulation.

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